From fe3d8ad31cf51b062bbb8a9609eeb1d0c41a7f30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Feng Tang Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:34:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] console: prevent registered consoles from dumping old kernel message over again For a platform with many consoles like: "console=tty1 console=ttyMFD2 console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=mrst" Each time when the non "selected_console" (tty1 and ttyMFD2 here) get registered, the existing kernel message will be printed out on registered consoles again, the "mrst" early console will get some same message for 3 times, and "tty1" will get some for twice. As suggested by Andrew Morton, every time a new console is registered, it will be set as the "exclusive" console which will dump the already existing kernel messages. Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Cc: Greg KH Cc: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed